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Computer repeatedly restarts when disk is inserted in DVD-Rom

... and will not stop until the disk is removed, it will restart before anything on the screen even appears. It has not be consitantly like this, when I first got it every time I inserted a disk and ran an installation from it or burned a CD in my DVD-ROM it would almost immediatly rev up to full-tilt and would be extremly loud until the installation was finished or the cd was finished buring, more recently it would sometimes randomly restart the computer but 2 or 3 tries would get it to eventually work, currently when a disk is inserted the computer will restart over-and over in immediate sucession until he disk is removed. CPU: AMD Athlon XP, 1466MHz (1700+) Motherboard: Asus A7V400-MX Memory: 512MB (PC3200 DDR SD RAM) (200MHz) GPU: Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000 (128 MB) DVD-ROM: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B Harddrive: 149G

Re: Computer repeatedly restarts when disk is inserted in DVD-Rom

Not sure but I'm thinking that your DVD-ROM is prolly toast. My guess would be that something within it is shorting out and creating a power shortage throughout the system. Try a new DVD-Rom if you can.

Re: Computer repeatedly restarts when disk is inserted in DVD-Rom

Re: Computer repeatedly restarts when disk is inserted in DVD-Rom

Doesn't mean it isn't bad. If it is causing problems then there is something either wrong with it or it is incompatible with your system. From what you describe, I would also say it is dead/dying and chances are it will just get worse, not better. RMA time.

Re: Computer repeatedly restarts when disk is inserted in DVD-Rom

Hmmm, I've never ran into a situation where a CDRom drive will cuase a system to restart, but I guess its possible. Have you tried running the system without the drive hooked up to see if you still get the restarts or better yet simply try a new drive (you could always return one somewhere if its not the prob)? I wonder if maybe your PSU might be underpowered or some other hardware or maybe a bad cable\wire ect might do that. You could check your system event veiwer to see if that gives some type of clue. It could be a software problem also. Shouldn't be too tough to troubleshoot though whatever it might be.